Cambodia

Location
Sdao Santepheup High School, Sdao Village, Battambang, Cambodia

Community Description
The area was one of the fronts of the civil war in the 1990s, and the town has only existed for about 15 years. The town is growing, with recently paved roads and a new bank building.

Sdao Santepheup High School is the only high school in the district, and has operated for less than 10 years. A new school building was recently built, with funding through an NGO.

Only 3 of 8 bathrooms at the school are presently used, often without water. This has a negative effect on the number of students (especially girls) who attend school and pursue education.

Project Description
This project will connect the school's ponds to the school's bathrooms.

Project funds will be used to purchase the pump and the required PVC pipe.

The labor for digging the trenches, laying the pipe, and installing the pump, will be contributed by the school and the community.

Project Impact
750 students at the school, consisting of 350 girls and 400 boys in grades 7 to 12, plus faculty and staff numbering 20 people, will be the direct beneficiaries.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Bob Miller

Comments
This is a simple and very inexpensive solution to a critical problem facing the school. It is simply a matter of transporting water in the ponds, where it exists, to the school bathroom, where it is urgently needed.

The participation of the community is very high. A small amount of help with the purchase of the materials is all that it will take to carry out this meaningful project.

Dollar Amount of Project
$200.00

Donations Collected to Date
$200.00

Dollar Amount Needed
$0.00 - This project has been fully funded, through the generosity of Six Senses Resorts & Spas as a part of their Clean Water Projects initiative.

We encourage others to continue to donate using the Donate button below, and we will notify Peace Corps Volunteer Bob Miller of your donation. Additional funds will be used to fund the next project by Bob and/or those of his counterpart PCVs in Cambodia.

Location
Toom T’mai Village, Dang Tung Commune, Dang Tung District, Kampot Province, Cambodia

Community Description
A general description of the district is set forth in the project pages of the prior projects, as described in the Comments section below.

This project will take place in Toom T’mai Village of Dang Tung Commune, located along a small dirt path off the north side of the 12 km dirt road leading to Wat Crang Leeyou, and ultimately to National Road 3. It will be located in the middle of a cluster of 14 houses, all occupied by families working at rice farming. To the east, north, and west of these houses are rice fields.

Currently, the families obtain water by biking 1 km to the communal pools at Wat Dang Tung, the closest Buddhist temple. The water they retrieve is not clean, as it is contaminated by the waste generated by the wat.

Project Description
This project is to dig a well and install a manual water pump. The district office will take responsibility for testing for cyanide to ensure that it is safe for use by the community. This precaution will be taken even though no cyanide has been encountered in any wells in the district to date.

The water table is stable and plentiful enough that the well will provide water during the entire year.

Project funds will go specifically toward hiring a skilled well digger, who will dig the well by hand and install the pump and mechanical equipment.

The community will contribute $50 toward the project, and will be responsible for the maintenance of the well and pump.

Project Impact
The project will directly affect 80 people, consisting of 63 adolescents and adults, and 17 small children, residing in the 14 houses surrounding the pump location. In addition it will be available for use neighbors on the other side of the road.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Lauren Arnold

Comments
This is Lauren’s fourth project, setting an example of excellence for other PCVs to follow. Here are the prior projects:

Bun Ranny Hun Sen High School Bathroom Project 1 – Cambodia

Bun Ranny Hun Sen High School Bathroom Project 2 – Cambodia

Prey Sumnang Well Project – Cambodia

Lauren efficiently directed the prior projects such that there was a savings of $100. She applied that amount to the current project, which led to the ability to build another well for a small additional amount.

Multiple projects in an area serve to encourage others to follow with additional community development efforts, and to reinforce the feeling of empowerment within the community.

The project provides clean water to an unserved population, and benefits public health at an extremely low cost.

Dollar Amount of Project
$450.00

Donations Collected to Date
$100.00 (savings from previous projects).

ADOPT THIS PROJECT BY CONTRIBUTING THE DOLLAR AMOUNT NEEDED BELOW

Donations of any amount will be appreciated. The full amount will give you "naming rights", if that is something you would like.

Any contributions in excess of the Dollar Amount of Project will be allocated to other projects directed by this PCV and/or projects of other PCVs in this country.

Dollar Amount Needed
$350.00

This is the third project by Peace Corps Volunteer Lauren Arnold. To read about the Bun Ranny Hun Sen High School Bathroom Project 1 – Cambodia, CLICK HERE. To read about the Prey Sumnang Well Project – Cambodia, CLICK HERE.

Location
Dang Tung Commune, Dang Tung District, Kampot Province, Cambodia

Community Description
The community is as has been described in the Bun Ranny Hun Sen High School Bathroom Project 1.

Project Description
The Bun Ranny Hun Sen High School Bathroom Project 1 resulted in the construction of a girl’s bathroom at Building A. This project is to construct an adjoining boy’s bathroom at Building A.

The school had evaluated the possibility of building this second bathroom at Building E, but decided that two bathrooms at A would be best, since the students from building B could also be able to use them.

As part of the design, a large water tank was envisioned to be shared by the two bathrooms, thus reducing the overall project costs.

As described in Bathroom Project 1, the source of water will be rainwater collected from the roof and conserved for use during the entire year.

Project funds will be used to purchase the needed materials and labor of skilled masons.

Project Impact
The project will provide an additional bathroom for the 451 students of Building A, and will also serve an additional 6 classrooms and 215 students of Building B.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Lauren Arnold

Comments
This is a planned follow-up to the successful completion of the first bathroom project at the school. There is a need for an additional 2 to 4 bathrooms. However, the ability to proceed on the overall school plan will depend upon the satisfactory completion of the current project. (It is to be noted that, in addition, this PCV has a pump project underway, and another ready to begin. Her excellence is to be commended.)

Dollar Amount of Project
$450.00

Donations Collected to Date
$0.00

ADOPT THIS PROJECT BY CONTRIBUTING THE DOLLAR AMOUNT NEEDED BELOW

Donations of any amount will be appreciated. The full amount will give you "naming rights", if that is something you would like.

Any contributions in excess of the Dollar Amount of Project will be allocated to other projects directed by this PCV and/or projects of other PCVs in this country.

Dollar Amount Needed
$450.00